Charlie Rose

fstcarz4  12/12/2011 07:37 AM Report

It's not hard to see that he's inspired by Gandhi, and referent power, and is trying to project himself as modern gandhi. I think facebook is a revolution, either facebook, or google plus whoever plays the game right will actually become the first trillion dollar company.

I am a facilitator, and I know the power of getting people under one roof is immense. Which facebook has done very very well. But what facebook probably doesn't realize is that people are magical. It's the chemistry between people, the dynamics of people which will yield real results, and take this company forward. It's that energy, that excitement, that synergy of people which creates magic.

Whoever is able to tap that will end up revolutionizing this concept.

So the name of the game is getting 4 p's of marketing if you can get right people at right place at right price by promoting at right avenues, then this idea will go ballistic, and become a trillion dollar idea.

kadycee  12/02/2011 01:18 AM Report

I'm sure Sheryl Sanberg is a very accomplished and intelligent woman. However, I'm disappointed that this interview wasn't just with Mark Zuckerberg. I wanted to hear more from him and got a little impatient with her more than once for interrupting. Hopefully in the future Mr. Zuckerberg will be on the show by himself. I enjoyed hearing from him.

JohnGelles  11/16/2011 07:16 PM Report

Here is a real face to face opportunity I'm pursuing locally:

Message to Ventura City .dot. net/ senior services:

SUGGESTION:

"A Senior Friendly Tablet Computer Hand-holding Support Group is in the planning stage.

"Light weight color tablets aimed at kids and seniors (among all others on the planet) are new right now. They may turn out to be especially right for seniors on account of their light weight, low cost, WIFI (often free) support and potential ease of use.

"Ventura City Senior Center is open to suggestions from interested seniors (and others) to provide some hand-holding and related services from a user support group type of informal private activity whose addresses may be placed in the Public Domain and will be available as information from the center.

"As a private activity, the City of Ventura will not associate itself with such addresses. It may come to pass that groups will be active at Senior Center locations -- in which case this paragraph may not apply."

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Soon after telecon and messaging as above, my new Kindle Fire arrived.

Now I'll open it.

My wish is to put all my CRS activity in the Amazon cloud -- and when I get the chance change the world overnight.

OBSERVER  11/16/2011 03:49 PM Report

We talk about Privacy & Identity Theaf, then we open up on FaceBook!!!

Most people I know, have problems with Facebook. Even one claimed his Password was used as his name on his page!!

JohnGelles  11/15/2011 06:39 PM Report

The negative comment on Facebook -- e.g., it's useless, juvenile, a perfect example of Newton Minnow's description -- "a vast wasteland" (applied to TV not WWW, etc., is the same as my own opinion of Facebook.

I have blamed myself because I cannot stand it. But, evidently, its high number of subscribers may be very misleading.

I am counted a member -- but never use it. I joined and went there less than ten times in several years.

Now the Charlie Rose Show(CRS) is different. I visit its www site often, watch it on TV always, and chide all my friends who do not watch it. I accuse them of being "know-nothings" on purpose, in these revolutionary times. They all have graduate degrees, money and like to play tennis. But they are ignorant on the many powerful topics CRS visits. And they do not give a damn. Popular sports news on football games and the like is the extent of their real curiosity. Who will win today's or tomorrow's game is their serious interest.

BUT the CRS show comment archive also stinks. The shows are very good, but the comments lead nowhere.

We need a derivative website that takes cues from the CR Shows. Then they offer comments that can build on each other to create reform agendas as good or better than the shows.

I'm thinking of something like the Occupy Movement (as defined in Wikipedia) that would be an "Occupy Intellectual Ideas in the Public Domain -- NOT PUBLIC OR PRIVATE STREETS OR PARKS."

We would deal with Lawrence Lessig's Republic Lost, dealing with corruption under crony capitalism, which CRS deals with tomorrow.

And, because crony capitalism and state capitalism (with zero human rights as we know them) is a global curse, we would deal with the paradox of political economy which is that Says Law ("supply creates monetized demand") is is FALSE but is assumed to be good enough to invite debt-based money.

The truth is that OUTPUT-BASED-MONEY or FULL EMPLOYMENT BUDGETING are the minimum reforms necessary rationalize user friendly capitalism.

We must be willing to turn debt into some measure of minority equity ownership, as necessary, to prevent inadequate monetized demand below the top -- to prevent all recessions.

Let's wake up CRS comment offerers. As of NOW you're no better than the most juvenile types on Facebook.

winter  11/15/2011 12:07 PM Report

China builds steel plants, leads the world in the developement of solar energy. What road are we

going down? Kiddie news -- letting their peers know what their favorite entertainment is and ....PICTURES. The kind of stuff that gets 16 year old little girls into traffic accidents because they're preoccupied with superficial ...everything. Absurdity vertigo.

le_bear  11/15/2011 10:34 AM Report

I very much appreciate your interviews, and watch them often. I especially appreciate the ones with world leaders. I see you at ten pm, one am, and one the next day. Reruns are no problem with your shows, I can watch them endlessly. The one with Mark was a rare exception, once was enough, and I actually found myself for the first time, turning off the show. Not your fault though Charlie, your show was as informative as ever, but just this once, enough was enough.

I thank you for that as well, to finally see the founder of this website up close, and realize there isn't much there. I only have one question for Mark, is there ANYTHING on your site that actually WORKS flawlessly? After two years of using it, the time spent waiting, and wishing, pages would load without errors so far exceeds the time spent productively that it only leaves me wishing I'd spent more of it elsewhere.

JohnGelles  11/15/2011 06:21 AM Report

correction:

"tonight's show [on law, reform, Lear and giving] is as good as TV interviews get" -- and won't be posted her for at least a day.

JohnGelles  11/15/2011 06:17 AM Report

Facebook is not a stand alone bulletin board -- it does so many things I cannot master its use yet -- and may never do so.

Charlie Rose Show (CRS) is a video copy of TV plus comments to its archive that form a crummy billboard. Sadly, it comes out so slowly that tonight's GREAT CRS with Tribe, Lessig, Lear (Sam Waterston), and Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen, is as good as TV interviews get.

So I have to comment here -- at least on Buddy Roemer, whom Lawrence Lessig wants to be our next president.

Doodah (and maybe others) in these comments has been promoting Roemer for years I believe, certainly months.

So CR -- please get Roemer to your table.

Lessig was a real treat. He sees raising money to be elected and re-elected to congress as the thing that has ruined our republic.

He is right. He says .05 of 1 percent of us give enough money to buy the congress that K Street lobbyists have taken over the writing of government regulations and eve n laws.

I add that the system he wants Roemer to reform is also plagued by debt-based money when only output-based money can save it and us.

I'm more right than Lessig, in fact, because the current recession (and crises) is global -- it plagues Europe and the whole global market where our Congress and our regulations compete with theirs.

To rtb ~ True my voice is not heard much by more than me and ever so slightly by you. But that is other people's loss.

beenthere2460  11/14/2011 08:09 PM Report

I find Facebook to be a great tool, it can't take the place of face to face, social interaction in terms of intimacy, but the idea of sharing is what is most important. It works like a memo of experiences. We can always go back and see a posting where something interesting was contributed and it changes the way you feel about it.

Privacy is the most valued consideration, and it has to remain so. There are degrees of friendships, not all of them are created equal. So let that be a major concern, thank you.

A very dynamic and complimentary duo, Mark and Sheryl. I "liked" this interview.

rtb  11/14/2011 01:24 PM Report

Hi John

Nobody likes to read multiple, long rants. Your voice goes unheard.

JohnGelles  11/14/2011 05:54 AM Report

Something I wrote in July bears repeating:

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JohnGelles 07/11/2011 10:39 PM

"Eat your peas."

The President asked Congress to eat its peas. He meant Congress should reduce tax exemptions and deductions in order to raise money for government TO pay bills and reduce the national debt.

Implied in his plea to "eat your peas", is the notion that if we had no deficit or debt, we would have more jobs and money to spend on keeping America strong, great and exemplary to other nations on Earth.

Do you believe such debt-free condition would bring such results?

Bill Clinton had us headed toward a zero national debt a dozen years ago. At that time the same idiots we have now worried we would have financial woes for lack of government bonds and the NATIONAL DEBT they created.

The President excused all ordinary citizens with no time to study how the Treasury sells bonds. He accepted the fact that HE has no time to study how we financed WW II without shoppers abroad to buy our exports or nations abroad to lend us money.

The President is a disaster at the moment. If he guides our ship of state (WITHOUT CAPSIZING IT) over the next few years, BECAUSE HE manages to learn how ignorant all his advisers are, it will be a miracle.

I voted for this lucky fool. His luck is running out. And so is mine. Is there any voice around to day, forecasting our economic future, that compares with Stuart Chase in "The Proper Study of Mankind". Chase passed on the information that nations can afford all that they can produce.

Until our nation believes that fact, we will produce far lees than we need -- and we will need far more than we have -- and far more than we can afford -- without a brain transplant.

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I called our President a fool for not reading the late Stuart Chase -- and, instead, accepting the line of his advisers. He and we are victims as well as fools. If he does not now seed the jobs and green energy production with executive orders and quantitative easing (if necessary), he will lose a critical election for no good reason.

Mark Z. ought to read Stuart Chase before another day passes. The connections he wants to make will otherwise be in vain.

JohnGelles  11/14/2011 01:15 AM Report

Sunday shows are over. I am left with the Charlie Rose archive that does not have a very recent interview on the Iranian BOMB and how to prevent it.

Mark, Charlie and Sheryl would like to promote peace and prosperity. The Japanese "Chernobyl" and Thailand mega-flood are not what Facebook brings to mind. But tonight my mind focuses on Iranian intentions, Japanese radioactivity, and Thai floods: what can we do to repair and prevent things that are so bad for so many?

Somehow it seems that Facebook ought to be replaced by something less trivial -- if there is such animal in the Internet zoo.

MMM123  11/13/2011 08:16 AM Report

To be truly honest, Sheryl is just one more person than needed in the interview. She is extremely rude interrupting what Mark is saying and tries to insert herself into the conversation. She does not deserve to be on this show.The insight from Mark is invaluable.

JohnGelles  11/12/2011 07:02 AM Report

www.ustaxreform.us/sr.htm <--- a similar rant this same evening.

JohnGelles  11/12/2011 06:53 AM Report

It's 3 am PST and I've re-watched the Facebook Mission and "Staying Grounded, with-OUT delusions of grandeur, -- when you're 27 years old, with a reputed 17 billion dollars to burn, and your modest desire is --

..... to give voice to a billion earthlings with private business to SHARE (with ANY-one over the internet,) and public objectives to achieve via CONNECTION to EVERY-one on the internet (that will improve the future for all --

.....because Facebook provides an OPEN TRANSPARENT PLATFORM as good or better than Google, Microsoft, Amazon and geniuses coming down the pike to unite the people who care for Earth and ALL ITS poor as much as Franklin, Jefferson, Lincoln and Jesus did,

..... before the IT revolution when Boole, Babbage, Lady Ada Lovelace, IBM, AARPA, Apple, Tim Berners-Lee, Mark Zuckerberg, and all of us, saw the power of digital signals to enlighten every living soul."

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And what do I see?

I see on PBS Mark Shields point out that the OCCUPY MOVEMENT has changed the national dialog -- and David Brooks find out that the leaderless MOVEMENT has done nothing lasting at all.

So I in this late night audience want the leaders of American intellectual opinion to occupy our collective mind with practical reform agendas.

We know the problem is mostly jobs. If we solve that one with MONEY for payrolls and self-employment, the problem will be tangible things that SUPPLY what we eat, drink and use to prevail over WANT. After all that, the problem will be peace.

We know too that we want voices from the great middle class to be summoned to create some solutions. The institutions that have failed us in recent years, including the government and the media, are not to be trusted much further. We want to open the public square to critical thought that attacks inequality and corruption writ large.

So in the message I wrote at 12:43 am, I asked for the best and the brightest to moderate new voices calling for effective reform that can OCCUPY our thoughts and produce some results.

If we fail to do something like it, we remain prisoners of debt and events. How about it Charlie Rose? Are you with Mark Shields, who sees possibilities? Or are you with David Brooks who sees damn nearly nothing?

JohnGelles  11/12/2011 12:43 AM Report

The Facebook Mission is to connect people to each other for their common good, as well as, for their personal desire to win friends and influence people (as Dale Carnegie once said.)

In my opinion TV broadcast copying by DVR is a good way to approach the "common good" mission.

Toward that end I offer the following plan:

[ the following is a plan you may also read on www.ustaxreform.us/sr.htm ]

OCCUPYING WALL STREET, K STREET AND MAIN STREET, USA

Providing an Alternative Set of ISSUES AND ANSWERS

In Search of Systemic Reform Originating Outside the Box of Conventional Constraints Inhibiting Media and Governmental Practice

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Physical occupation of city parks and squares has brought global grievances of poor and middle class families to the attention of the President and the public during the financial contraction still in effect after global debt and unemployment exposed capitalism to its worst months since the 1930's.

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Occupation of parks and squares, by itself, has not surfaced systemic reform agendas from old or new political parties or academic schools of thought to suggest definite public debates our situation calls for.

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Governments and freedom of the press (as institutions) need more than we currently have to speed recovery from this contraction -- and to promote progress toward the Millennial Goal to End Poverty and age old dreams of democratic success in real life political economy.

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We propose reasonable "occupancy" of broadcast time in daily hours between 2 and 4 am for TV stations within public and private news services for digital video recording of issues and answers to serious systemic failures of global and national performance.

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Such failures, issues, answers and agendas should give voice to cultural critics with promise of practical success. They should offer perspectives not tainted by greed and narrow interest.

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They should be monitored by trusted personalities from PBS, CSPAN, Journalism faculties of respected universities, respected news and opinion journals, popular television and internet sources, and schools (of technology, religion, history, future studies, law and economics, etc.).

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Funding for occupancy of such hours of broadcast time and associated costs should come from government, private philanthropy, subscriptions, and sales of copies of what is aired.

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As much product as possible ought to be in the public domain.

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www.ustaxreform.us/.crs.htm <-- related CR Show Interviews